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What words are encrypted in the SOS signal?

None. In the middle of the XIX century. An international commission was developing a generally understandable distress signal, looking for a combination of letters that was convenient for transmission and reception, easily converted into the Morse alphabet. Found: three dots, three dashes, three dots. Decodings like "save our ship" (save our ship) or "save our souls" (save our souls) are wrong.

Today they call the international challenge "Mayday", which comes from the contraction of the French phrase "Venez m'aider", that is, "help me."

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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